Yes I am desperate. I am desperate to get the fuck out of here. To get a teaching job, to stop engaging in this mind-numbing exercise that is my job at the library every fucking day of my life.
Can you tell I'm in pretty much the same shitty humor I was in last Tuesday?
I am however, desperate.
So desperate in fact that I just applied for job in Ada, Oklahoma.
Yes, ladies, and...well...ladies, I have volunteered for deportation to..........oklahoma.
Well at least I'm not reduced to applying for jobs in Texas...yet.
A friend brought to my attention the fact that my comments on Barack Obama could be interpreted as racist. They're not. I just don't like the guy.
Those of you know me, know better, and those that don't will draw their own conclusions. That's all I'm going to say on the subject, it just winds into endless debate and I refuse to go down that road.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
I told you so
I've said for years that they say terrible things when they think we're not listening. NOW do you believe me?
(courtesy of Joemygod.com)
(courtesy of Joemygod.com)
Friday, March 7, 2008
I was joking!
I was, really. Last week when I said I hoped there'd be lots of speedos and pornstaches for this weeks Friday hot guy fest I didn't really mean it. Well, I did, but who expects that stuff to come true?
Anyway, I put in pornstache and up comes Timberlake. I'm not crazy about him, he's terribly young, and in my opinion that lowers my level of interest automatically. I would make an exception for his old boy-bandmate JC Chasez though, that boy is cuuute!, and I hear he's hanging around with some guy lately, and they've moved in together. Hope springs eternal, and the bags under my eyes are going to magically disappear one day. Yeah right.
Anyway here's Justin, I do take exception to the fact that that is not in point of fact a speedo, and his stick on mustache isn't exactly period, but I get the point of the picture and it is fun.
Oldflame used to wear speedos...and boy could he wear those things!
Cocktails and dinner out with friends. Tomorrow is horses, cars, and lots of reading. Besides we lose an hour, which sucks. Sunday I'll lunch with the bro and then back to that thing I do. Oldflame should be in Thailand by now. He's off to Vietnam and Cambodia for a week or two. I think this makes 55 countries. He loves it. That's what's important.
I, on the other hand aspire to seeing California again...one day.
Love
Anyway, I put in pornstache and up comes Timberlake. I'm not crazy about him, he's terribly young, and in my opinion that lowers my level of interest automatically. I would make an exception for his old boy-bandmate JC Chasez though, that boy is cuuute!, and I hear he's hanging around with some guy lately, and they've moved in together. Hope springs eternal, and the bags under my eyes are going to magically disappear one day. Yeah right.
Anyway here's Justin, I do take exception to the fact that that is not in point of fact a speedo, and his stick on mustache isn't exactly period, but I get the point of the picture and it is fun.
Oldflame used to wear speedos...and boy could he wear those things!
Cocktails and dinner out with friends. Tomorrow is horses, cars, and lots of reading. Besides we lose an hour, which sucks. Sunday I'll lunch with the bro and then back to that thing I do. Oldflame should be in Thailand by now. He's off to Vietnam and Cambodia for a week or two. I think this makes 55 countries. He loves it. That's what's important.
I, on the other hand aspire to seeing California again...one day.
Love
Thursday, March 6, 2008
It's redundant but I'll do it anyway
You know how I'm always going on about how stupid people are?
Here's some of that proof I love to see so much:
And then he seemed genuinely surprised that the crocodile wanted to kill him.
It's a mystery to me.
(pictures courtesy of Towleroad.com)
Hillary Clinton may not win the nomination but she's getting in some damn good one-liners. Yesterday she said: "I think you'll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say. He's never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002."
pretty goood!
I'll bet Barack Obama was a bitch to live with yesterday. He presses those sour grapes a little too publicly for me when he looses.
I mean come on folks, he's a first term Senator from Illinois, with little political experience (yes I know he was an organizer blah blah blah) and no foreign policy experience who is running on one issue and one issue only: and that is, Do you all want change so badly that you're willing to put a completely inexperienced, unoriginal African American in the White House for the next four years? His policy of telling everyone what they want to hear is working well. It's proven that we Americans will believe any shit we're told and he's got no reason not to capitalize on that.
I read on some blog yesterday that I found while I was sitting here, completely spacing out my Spanish class, that said something to the effect of "It doesn't matter whether he believes in or worships Jesus." Well, it actually does. His religious beliefs will definitely effect his leadership no doubt about it. It effected Kennedy as a catholic, it effected Nixon as a quaker, even though he was more crazy than religious. It effected Jimmy Carter as a southern baptist,(if I recall correctly Carter declared himself born-again while in office) and it most definitely effects George W Bush who thinks God wanted him to be President. So why in God's name (pun intended) would it not be relevant in this case?
What's more relevant than that to me is that we're all so willing to jump on the empty bandwagon. There's nothing there folks! It's an empty vessel run by a captain who just wants to be the first black American President. Now find me a black guy with some credentials, some real experience on the world stage, hell, find me someone who holds hearings on the NATO committee they're supposed to be chairing in the Senate, and I'll vote for them. Someone of substance with something to say. Someone who can and will stand up and say to the world that we're a responsible nation that takes our role as superpower seriously and comprehends and respects the responsibilities that implies. And then goes out and proves those words are true.
That's a guy I'll vote for.
This guy doesn't impress me at all.
"Be nice to gay people, they're so stupid they might just be the key to me getting elected...then we can forget them."
Well, that's how Bill Clinton got elected...twice. He told us what we wanted to hear and we bought it. And then he fucked us, and not in a good way.
Prepare for more of the same.
I'm not delusional, I know that Hillary Clinton isn't going to fix our problems either, but I do believe she's got a better idea of what it takes to get things done than Obama. If he wants to run again in four years, and he's gotten some real experience and shown his ability to do more than give good speech, as Richard Rothstein said on Proceed At Your Own Risk this morning, I'll campaign for him wholeheartedly. But not this time.
And for something even scarier here's a quote from Rev. John Hagee (who hates fags, of course) about the ecclesiastical possibilities behind Hurricane Katrina:
(from towleroad.com)
"All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are -- were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans."
John McCain just welcomed this guy into his life with open arms.
Are you frightened enough yet?
Wait, wait look over there! A crocodile! Go look at it.
Here's some of that proof I love to see so much:
And then he seemed genuinely surprised that the crocodile wanted to kill him.
It's a mystery to me.
(pictures courtesy of Towleroad.com)
Hillary Clinton may not win the nomination but she's getting in some damn good one-liners. Yesterday she said: "I think you'll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say. He's never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002."
pretty goood!
I'll bet Barack Obama was a bitch to live with yesterday. He presses those sour grapes a little too publicly for me when he looses.
I mean come on folks, he's a first term Senator from Illinois, with little political experience (yes I know he was an organizer blah blah blah) and no foreign policy experience who is running on one issue and one issue only: and that is, Do you all want change so badly that you're willing to put a completely inexperienced, unoriginal African American in the White House for the next four years? His policy of telling everyone what they want to hear is working well. It's proven that we Americans will believe any shit we're told and he's got no reason not to capitalize on that.
I read on some blog yesterday that I found while I was sitting here, completely spacing out my Spanish class, that said something to the effect of "It doesn't matter whether he believes in or worships Jesus." Well, it actually does. His religious beliefs will definitely effect his leadership no doubt about it. It effected Kennedy as a catholic, it effected Nixon as a quaker, even though he was more crazy than religious. It effected Jimmy Carter as a southern baptist,(if I recall correctly Carter declared himself born-again while in office) and it most definitely effects George W Bush who thinks God wanted him to be President. So why in God's name (pun intended) would it not be relevant in this case?
What's more relevant than that to me is that we're all so willing to jump on the empty bandwagon. There's nothing there folks! It's an empty vessel run by a captain who just wants to be the first black American President. Now find me a black guy with some credentials, some real experience on the world stage, hell, find me someone who holds hearings on the NATO committee they're supposed to be chairing in the Senate, and I'll vote for them. Someone of substance with something to say. Someone who can and will stand up and say to the world that we're a responsible nation that takes our role as superpower seriously and comprehends and respects the responsibilities that implies. And then goes out and proves those words are true.
That's a guy I'll vote for.
This guy doesn't impress me at all.
"Be nice to gay people, they're so stupid they might just be the key to me getting elected...then we can forget them."
Well, that's how Bill Clinton got elected...twice. He told us what we wanted to hear and we bought it. And then he fucked us, and not in a good way.
Prepare for more of the same.
I'm not delusional, I know that Hillary Clinton isn't going to fix our problems either, but I do believe she's got a better idea of what it takes to get things done than Obama. If he wants to run again in four years, and he's gotten some real experience and shown his ability to do more than give good speech, as Richard Rothstein said on Proceed At Your Own Risk this morning, I'll campaign for him wholeheartedly. But not this time.
And for something even scarier here's a quote from Rev. John Hagee (who hates fags, of course) about the ecclesiastical possibilities behind Hurricane Katrina:
(from towleroad.com)
"All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are -- were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans."
John McCain just welcomed this guy into his life with open arms.
Are you frightened enough yet?
Wait, wait look over there! A crocodile! Go look at it.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
like I'd just shut up after that
I'm cutting and pasting a story I just found on Bilerico.com. The whole issue of Barack Obama and his policy to tell anyone anything they want to hear is abundantly transparent to me. Apparently not to everyone, since they vote for him in droves. But I've found a few who get that he's full of it, and they were speaking on this post.
It's a must read for those of us GLBT voters who are either undecided or are blindly voting for the flavor of the month cause it's fashionable to be "inspirational."
Read this and get a clue:
Posted on Bilerico.com March 4, 2008.
LGBTQ Community Too Sharp For Recycled Propaganda
Filed by: Rev Irene Monroe
If Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's recent flood of campaign literature can be believed, then his recent media buys in Ohio and Texas might be a sign of "a change of heart" or, as we say in religious language, a "conversion," as he demonstrated at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, where he shared his thoughts on same-sex unions.
"I think that it is a legal right that they [homosexuals] should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans," Obama said, which was then used in advertisements in the four largest LGBTQ markets in Ohio and Texas -- Columbus, Cleveland, Dallas, and Houston.
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According to Obama's LGBTQ Steering Committee member Eric Stern, purchasing of these ads was "the icing on the cake" leading up to today's primaries.
But before the Obama campaign have their cake and eat it too in celebration of their outreach to these targeted queer communities, perhaps they need to chew on this as well: What about the queer newspapers in Rhode Island and Vermont that run throughout the New England states, one of which I write for?
Perhaps the LGBTQ populations are two small in numbers to matter and the states too weak in delegate power in helping Obama clench the presidential nomination?
But let me refer Obama to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, when Jesus says in Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they too shall inherit the earth."
And but our community here needs to hear this from you as well if we're going to ever believe that you want to be part of us.
This timely conversion might appear more faith-driven than politically motivated, but the language of Christian equality was non-existent in Obama's "Open Letter from Barack Obama to the LGBT Community" as a guest blogger here on The Bilerico Project just last week, in which he said:
I personally believe that civil unions represent the best way to secure that equal treatment. But I also believe that the federal government should not stand in the way of states that want to decide on their own how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples -- whether that means a domestic partnership, a civil union, or a civil marriage.
The differences between civil union vs. civil marriage for same-sex couple is approximately 1,049 benefits and protections that are conferred upon heterosexual marriages. And the differences have been explained and expounded upon to Obama and his campaign ad nauseum. However, his repackaging the same pro-civil union rhetoric since his run for the White House is like re-gifting your undesirable Christmas presents. Sooner or later, when these gifts are passed around enough, someone will take them.
But, Obama, not everyone is buying your re-gift.
A commenter at Pam's House Blend wrote:
Obama not only thinks that separate-but-equal is just ducky for LGBT couples. It was a gimmick from an era in which Obama could have aspired to no position in the White House higher than that of head janitor..., Once he's in office, LGBT citizens will be forgotten. Fast.
Obama is also in favor of the "States Rights" approach to the whole marriage equality issue. This was a principle sacred to the White Citizens' Councils a half-century ago and is just as unconstitutional now.
This isn't a compromise or incremental approach to marriage equality; it's flat-out opposition to it -- and on the basis of old segregationist tricks at that all.
But there's no limit to the ability of some voters to believe whatever is presented to them in a slick package, apparently.
Another commenter there wrote:
People are very galvanized by Barack (who is my Senator) in a way that surprises me. I am all for hope and change and then the question becomes what will the change be on the issues I care most about. My husband and I have two kids and face constant challenges, great and small, by not being treated as legally married (which we are in Canada) so protecting my family is critical for me. Here, Barack advocates something less than marriage (and since he is very popular and very persuasive, this reassures a lot of people that they, too, can be against marriage). This has particular sting because he presents himself, as Karen noted, as a constitutional law expert. As such he knows that the right to civil marriage is constitutionally protected and has been held to be so important it cannot be denied even to convicted serial killers (who can lose the right to vote and other civil rights). Why do we deserve less? No one ever asks him.
Since Obama doesn't often defend his position on civil unions to members of the GLBT media, it is politically prudent for him to buy ads speaking to us because doing so lets him control his interactions with the LGBTQ community and the topics on which he doesn't want to be challenged.
Let me suggest that Obama take his time and read the entire Sermon on the Mount, chapters 5-7, from which he referenced recently. It contains the central tenets of Christian ethical teachings on which he claims to base his campaign. And I strongly suggest that he reads all of Matthew 7, the concluding chapter. It emphasizes the difficulty of doing what is right, but the moral imperative to do so nonetheless
It's a must read for those of us GLBT voters who are either undecided or are blindly voting for the flavor of the month cause it's fashionable to be "inspirational."
Read this and get a clue:
Posted on Bilerico.com March 4, 2008.
LGBTQ Community Too Sharp For Recycled Propaganda
Filed by: Rev Irene Monroe
If Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's recent flood of campaign literature can be believed, then his recent media buys in Ohio and Texas might be a sign of "a change of heart" or, as we say in religious language, a "conversion," as he demonstrated at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, where he shared his thoughts on same-sex unions.
"I think that it is a legal right that they [homosexuals] should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans," Obama said, which was then used in advertisements in the four largest LGBTQ markets in Ohio and Texas -- Columbus, Cleveland, Dallas, and Houston.
Shop TLA Video
According to Obama's LGBTQ Steering Committee member Eric Stern, purchasing of these ads was "the icing on the cake" leading up to today's primaries.
But before the Obama campaign have their cake and eat it too in celebration of their outreach to these targeted queer communities, perhaps they need to chew on this as well: What about the queer newspapers in Rhode Island and Vermont that run throughout the New England states, one of which I write for?
Perhaps the LGBTQ populations are two small in numbers to matter and the states too weak in delegate power in helping Obama clench the presidential nomination?
But let me refer Obama to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, when Jesus says in Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they too shall inherit the earth."
And but our community here needs to hear this from you as well if we're going to ever believe that you want to be part of us.
This timely conversion might appear more faith-driven than politically motivated, but the language of Christian equality was non-existent in Obama's "Open Letter from Barack Obama to the LGBT Community" as a guest blogger here on The Bilerico Project just last week, in which he said:
I personally believe that civil unions represent the best way to secure that equal treatment. But I also believe that the federal government should not stand in the way of states that want to decide on their own how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples -- whether that means a domestic partnership, a civil union, or a civil marriage.
The differences between civil union vs. civil marriage for same-sex couple is approximately 1,049 benefits and protections that are conferred upon heterosexual marriages. And the differences have been explained and expounded upon to Obama and his campaign ad nauseum. However, his repackaging the same pro-civil union rhetoric since his run for the White House is like re-gifting your undesirable Christmas presents. Sooner or later, when these gifts are passed around enough, someone will take them.
But, Obama, not everyone is buying your re-gift.
A commenter at Pam's House Blend wrote:
Obama not only thinks that separate-but-equal is just ducky for LGBT couples. It was a gimmick from an era in which Obama could have aspired to no position in the White House higher than that of head janitor..., Once he's in office, LGBT citizens will be forgotten. Fast.
Obama is also in favor of the "States Rights" approach to the whole marriage equality issue. This was a principle sacred to the White Citizens' Councils a half-century ago and is just as unconstitutional now.
This isn't a compromise or incremental approach to marriage equality; it's flat-out opposition to it -- and on the basis of old segregationist tricks at that all.
But there's no limit to the ability of some voters to believe whatever is presented to them in a slick package, apparently.
Another commenter there wrote:
People are very galvanized by Barack (who is my Senator) in a way that surprises me. I am all for hope and change and then the question becomes what will the change be on the issues I care most about. My husband and I have two kids and face constant challenges, great and small, by not being treated as legally married (which we are in Canada) so protecting my family is critical for me. Here, Barack advocates something less than marriage (and since he is very popular and very persuasive, this reassures a lot of people that they, too, can be against marriage). This has particular sting because he presents himself, as Karen noted, as a constitutional law expert. As such he knows that the right to civil marriage is constitutionally protected and has been held to be so important it cannot be denied even to convicted serial killers (who can lose the right to vote and other civil rights). Why do we deserve less? No one ever asks him.
Since Obama doesn't often defend his position on civil unions to members of the GLBT media, it is politically prudent for him to buy ads speaking to us because doing so lets him control his interactions with the LGBTQ community and the topics on which he doesn't want to be challenged.
Let me suggest that Obama take his time and read the entire Sermon on the Mount, chapters 5-7, from which he referenced recently. It contains the central tenets of Christian ethical teachings on which he claims to base his campaign. And I strongly suggest that he reads all of Matthew 7, the concluding chapter. It emphasizes the difficulty of doing what is right, but the moral imperative to do so nonetheless
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Pestilence
I'm going to post a cropped version of the March calendar. the pictures really don't do it justice. I've been feeling particularly useless today and found myself staring at it quite a lot this morning. It's really cool.
I'm truly sad I can't make it to Berkeley for the final performances of Jukebox Stories there. Men touching men is always a worthwhile activity to pay to see. But men touching barely legal men...now that's must see theatre!
The weather managed to give us a little tug this weekend and that was all. Sadly we're back to cold and shitty. I'll be sooo glad when it's spring and I can bitch about the heat and humidity and the pollen and the rain and......
The medical establishment is truly screwing us. I just came to that realization the other day when I got over 1k of bills for three tests which they're attributing to a mysterious new deductible. Humana sucks it, and for 1400 bucks they better suck it good.
I am now a tireless advocate of universal health care. This shit has got to go. That along with big oil. Rid ourselves of those two and we'd all be better off. Especially if we were walking. Better air, better health. What's so bad about that?
Yeah I think they have to go.
If I hear one more of you say you're going to vote for inspiration I'm going to puke!
Let's see if you can eat or run your car on inspiration in three years.
The last thing I wanted to do today was ask a question:
Is this the face of evil or what?
First of all you are sooo fallible when you wear colors that clash that badly. And second I'm waiting for a bolt of lightning to come flashing out of that gnarled talon any second. The catholic church is the source of all evil I swear it.
Is it apparent that I am not playing well with others today?
Monday, March 3, 2008
So Sorry!
I'm a bit over scheduled today. What happened Friday I can't tell you cause I don't remember, but I do know I forgot to post the picture of the Freaking Amazing Ancient Egyptian 2008 Popup Calendar.
So here:
It's entirely possible that I was so enamored of Taye Diggs abs that I spaced out the calendar altogether and most of you will know that's not only possible it's likely, so I know I'm forgiven.
Today I scheduled a chiropractor follow-up visit, a meeting, calls to the health insurance co who is seriously trying to screw me over some tests (you wouldn't believe what they've billed me) calls to the courthouse to get those people to start giving out correct info. (Adoption records in Kansas are not sealed and they're telling people they are.) Make an appt to get the brakes on the car serviced. Do my regular work, which is a lot on Monday, AND go to Spanish class this afternoon (in an hour to be precise) after which I have to go get my TB skin test read(schools require you have one as a teacher) and then off to pottery class.
So do I have time for you? NO. Do I love you so much and crave the attention that like 150 people have given me since the first of the year that I will cram a few minutes into my day to get this pic posted and say hello. Of course I will.
I'm still trying to formulate a plan about the adoption thing. I have decided to ask the courts to put my name back on my birth certificate, keeping the fist name. I'm too old to change that one now. As for contacting Mommy Dearest about Daddy's name. I think a letter is the best way. She'll ignore it and then I'll send another and another and finally she'll get scared enough that I'll re-appear and tell her husband and children that I'm her dirty little secret that she'll give it up. (she's never told anyone about me, so I've got great leverage should I have to resort to extortion. lol)
Either that or one of us will succumb to the vagaries of time and stress and just die, and then it won't really matter will it?
Love
So here:
It's entirely possible that I was so enamored of Taye Diggs abs that I spaced out the calendar altogether and most of you will know that's not only possible it's likely, so I know I'm forgiven.
Today I scheduled a chiropractor follow-up visit, a meeting, calls to the health insurance co who is seriously trying to screw me over some tests (you wouldn't believe what they've billed me) calls to the courthouse to get those people to start giving out correct info. (Adoption records in Kansas are not sealed and they're telling people they are.) Make an appt to get the brakes on the car serviced. Do my regular work, which is a lot on Monday, AND go to Spanish class this afternoon (in an hour to be precise) after which I have to go get my TB skin test read(schools require you have one as a teacher) and then off to pottery class.
So do I have time for you? NO. Do I love you so much and crave the attention that like 150 people have given me since the first of the year that I will cram a few minutes into my day to get this pic posted and say hello. Of course I will.
I'm still trying to formulate a plan about the adoption thing. I have decided to ask the courts to put my name back on my birth certificate, keeping the fist name. I'm too old to change that one now. As for contacting Mommy Dearest about Daddy's name. I think a letter is the best way. She'll ignore it and then I'll send another and another and finally she'll get scared enough that I'll re-appear and tell her husband and children that I'm her dirty little secret that she'll give it up. (she's never told anyone about me, so I've got great leverage should I have to resort to extortion. lol)
Either that or one of us will succumb to the vagaries of time and stress and just die, and then it won't really matter will it?
Love
Saturday, March 1, 2008
and the worm turns
OMG! I'm still digesting all the information I have received today.
I opened my mailbox to find an envelope from the state child welfare division, and all the way back to my apt I couldn't figure out what it was.
It appears the woman at the vital record office at teh county courthouse was wrong. Kansas is an open record state, and today I received all the offocial papers regarding my adoption decree. Daddy was never named, but Mommy dearest was apparently white trash from the get-go.
JoAnn Taylor was indeed my biological mother. I am so putting that on the internet!
I'm kind of reeling from it all, so all I'm going to say until i come to some rational decisions, which are not likely on this $100 bottle of wine I just opened, is...
My name is Douglas Taylor.
I opened my mailbox to find an envelope from the state child welfare division, and all the way back to my apt I couldn't figure out what it was.
It appears the woman at the vital record office at teh county courthouse was wrong. Kansas is an open record state, and today I received all the offocial papers regarding my adoption decree. Daddy was never named, but Mommy dearest was apparently white trash from the get-go.
JoAnn Taylor was indeed my biological mother. I am so putting that on the internet!
I'm kind of reeling from it all, so all I'm going to say until i come to some rational decisions, which are not likely on this $100 bottle of wine I just opened, is...
My name is Douglas Taylor.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
How I could have neglected to post a picture of Taye Diggs for the entire month I'll never know. But as we wind up Black history month it's worth noting that Taye is drop dead gorgeous, well, he is.
I love Blair Underwood too, there's something about that mischievous little grin.
Well I hope your Black History Month was exciting. March's theme has not been decided yet. probably something spring-y. Lots of speedos and pornstaches I hope.
I'm back on the adoption records trail. It appears now that the adoption was handled in Kansas which is an open records state and I've sent off requests to find out what I can. I've questioned my motives a couple of times in this little drama, but in the end I've decided I have the right to know where I came from and who I am, technically, and I'm going to exercise those rights.
Speaking of exercise, it's supposed to be 60 degrees here tomorrow which means I'll be riding at some point. I cannot wait to get on a bike. I'd like to get on a horse too, but one thing at a time.
Dinner with oldflame this evening, lunch with my brother tomorrow, and then I think I'll go see my HB, to borrow a term I'm rather fond of from a fellow blogger. (HB means hook-up boy, and I really like the term. It puts the entire relationship in perspective no one gets confused about their role that way.) Sunday if it's nice I'll go ride a horse and then attempt to grade the papers I got yesterday.
It seems no one listened to me. I told them a million times I did not want a book report and that's exactly what they gave me, to a person. I'm torn over whether I should throw a fit and make them do it over, or just accept these and make their Medea assignment even harder. (unfortunately one of them thought I was referring to Tyler Perry when I mentioned Medea the first week of class, so this may all be moot) I'm incredibly impatient today so I may hold off on that decision until I'm a little more easy-going...ok, ok, stop laughing, a little less wild-eyed, how's that?
Have a good weekend.
Love
Monday, February 25, 2008
Bulletin: Earth Off Axis!
I'm sure there is something wrong in the universe. Things can't be right. There was justice in Hollywood last night, that's a sure sign of the apocalypse. I'd advise you to repent and right soon, cause this shit ain't right. I'm not sure what the repercussions will be, either locusts or John McCain, I'm not sure which, but you can bet your ass it'll be bad.
No Country for Old Men was indeed the best picture of the year and I could not hide my surprise when I didn't hear "Atonement" announced as the winner. I thought for sure that sappy (though pretty good) thing was going to get it. Who'da thunk it? I mean after the travesty that was the 2006 Oscars when that POS Crash won instead of what was actually the best picture of the year, and yes it pains me to say that Brokeback Mountain was the best picture, but it was. And though no one could have known what was to happen, the Best Actor Oscar should have gone to Heath Ledger that year, because he was the only one nominated who wasn't doing an imitation of someone else. I never understood the whole "he's so handsome" thing because I didn't think he was, but I did think he was quite a good actor. And Ennis Del Mar was a seamless creation.
Diablo Cody, wow, that was a surprise, and well deserved. And Tilda Swinton...love her (probably cause she was such a cool Mom in Deep End) but in any case her win for Michael Clayton was the right choice. See why I'm so concerned about the future? The Academy NEVER gets this shit right.
Daniel Day-Lewis Is sooo good, and in There Will be Blood, he was amazing. Another correct choice, though you'd probably get a big Nuh Uh! from Tommy Lee Jones. His face said he REALLY wanted that Oscar last night and was really not happy to hear someone else's name announced. Tommy Lee really does deserve one, but not for Valley of Elah.
This is also noteworthy in that I don't do award shows! I really don't believe in them. I'd prefer that the stars just got up on stage and masturbated, which is what all this amounts to anyway. THAT would be far more entertaining than to see who won the Drama Prom popularity contest. Well, until next year..if there is one after this.
Tomorrow the application to the school in the California desert goes out. Cross your fingers. I really want this one. Though I don't treasure living in California again, this might be ok since it's not exactly where they keep all those...people. At any rate the job is exactly me so here's hoping.
Happy Monday all. And prepare yourselves for the excitement that will be Friday, cause we'll be unveiling the month of March on the Freaking Amazing Ancient Egyptian 2008 Popup Calendar. It's excellent. But just you wait till the month of my birth...May... it's truly the shizzle. That month my Office will shine with a glow of Fabulousness not previously known to exist in the universe.
No Country for Old Men was indeed the best picture of the year and I could not hide my surprise when I didn't hear "Atonement" announced as the winner. I thought for sure that sappy (though pretty good) thing was going to get it. Who'da thunk it? I mean after the travesty that was the 2006 Oscars when that POS Crash won instead of what was actually the best picture of the year, and yes it pains me to say that Brokeback Mountain was the best picture, but it was. And though no one could have known what was to happen, the Best Actor Oscar should have gone to Heath Ledger that year, because he was the only one nominated who wasn't doing an imitation of someone else. I never understood the whole "he's so handsome" thing because I didn't think he was, but I did think he was quite a good actor. And Ennis Del Mar was a seamless creation.
Diablo Cody, wow, that was a surprise, and well deserved. And Tilda Swinton...love her (probably cause she was such a cool Mom in Deep End) but in any case her win for Michael Clayton was the right choice. See why I'm so concerned about the future? The Academy NEVER gets this shit right.
Daniel Day-Lewis Is sooo good, and in There Will be Blood, he was amazing. Another correct choice, though you'd probably get a big Nuh Uh! from Tommy Lee Jones. His face said he REALLY wanted that Oscar last night and was really not happy to hear someone else's name announced. Tommy Lee really does deserve one, but not for Valley of Elah.
This is also noteworthy in that I don't do award shows! I really don't believe in them. I'd prefer that the stars just got up on stage and masturbated, which is what all this amounts to anyway. THAT would be far more entertaining than to see who won the Drama Prom popularity contest. Well, until next year..if there is one after this.
Tomorrow the application to the school in the California desert goes out. Cross your fingers. I really want this one. Though I don't treasure living in California again, this might be ok since it's not exactly where they keep all those...people. At any rate the job is exactly me so here's hoping.
Happy Monday all. And prepare yourselves for the excitement that will be Friday, cause we'll be unveiling the month of March on the Freaking Amazing Ancient Egyptian 2008 Popup Calendar. It's excellent. But just you wait till the month of my birth...May... it's truly the shizzle. That month my Office will shine with a glow of Fabulousness not previously known to exist in the universe.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Out all over the place
Buddy X and his big outie are this weeks favorites.
I love Lenny's music but does he HAVE to be so impossibly cool all the time???
Happy Friday!
If you're fighting these winter blues with me, hang in there February is almost over.
Martini's at 5! (thankfully they're not trendy anymore. I hated all those martini concoctions the bars were coming up with. Give me some gin in a glass with a little vermouth somewhere in the room and I'm good. Teaching me the art of the Martini is the best thing Art Bratt ever did for me. I've been drinking those things for decades.)
And in just a few hours I'm gonna have a couple...and then some really good pasta too.
Oh Magoo...you've done it again!
Our shining example of an education system has stuck yet another feather in its cap.
Of course, as Tyler Durden said: "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." (remember Tyler Durden? He was a character created by Brad Pitt back when he used to act and not rely on his good guy personality to get him through)
The results of a study were released recently. In this study the educators of America came to a stunning conclusion...children need downtime.
Apparently they need time to themselves to process what they've learned, to apply it, and to develop skills and personality traits all their own. FUCKING AMAZING!!! Who knew?
Apparently everyone but our educators. Does anyone see this as a problem besides me? I mean really, how can a teacher possibly be expected to be an effective educator when they're led by morons who think that the results of this study are newsworthy.
I have to wonder how much it cost.
Of course, as Tyler Durden said: "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." (remember Tyler Durden? He was a character created by Brad Pitt back when he used to act and not rely on his good guy personality to get him through)
The results of a study were released recently. In this study the educators of America came to a stunning conclusion...children need downtime.
Apparently they need time to themselves to process what they've learned, to apply it, and to develop skills and personality traits all their own. FUCKING AMAZING!!! Who knew?
Apparently everyone but our educators. Does anyone see this as a problem besides me? I mean really, how can a teacher possibly be expected to be an effective educator when they're led by morons who think that the results of this study are newsworthy.
I have to wonder how much it cost.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
I am a Person
I suppose it's convention to use colloquialisms.
For example, "No Problem." There's one that'll make my blood boil. The young man from the grocery store carries my things to the car, "Thanks," I say. "No Problem." is his response.
Apparently what he fails to understand is that I have absolutely no interest whether it was a problem for him to do his job or not. What I did was thank him for doing said job. The correct response is "You're welcome."
The other day on NPR they were interviewing some illiterate and at the end of the interview..."thanks for talking with us." " No Problem." Why the assumption that we're all so concerned about people's problems suddenly? We're not even concerned that they're people!
Seriously, no one gives a damn if I'm resentful today that I don't have a better job in education with my experience and credentials than I do. They just want me to do the job I have and shut the hell up. I should say "No problem" you'll pardon the expression.
Another is the word "individual." When exactly did we become so depersonalized that everyone is an individual instead of a person?
A quote from the editor of a local magazine which bills itself as the..."Voice for the LGBT and Allied Communities."
"Letters to the editor and most SpeakOut opinion pieces are written by individuals in the community."
I've never heard of them though they've apparently existed for five years now. See how I am involved in the community as an individual?
"'There were probably weeks of this student being subjected to harassment,' said Joe Gonzales, parent of a student at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, where King was killed Feb. 12." Where is Larry King's name in that parents statement?
Does anyone notice a pattern here?
I recall a flight from France to Toronto a couple of years ago in which the pilots screwed up and ran off the runway resulting in a crash and fire.However, the rest of the flight crew was on their game and got all of the passengers out of the aircraft in record time and the incident was immediately referred to as a "Miracle"
How about a little credit for the PEOPLE who did the job they were trained to do? How about a little credit for the PEOPLE who got all those PEOPLE off that plane without losing one?
Why in our society today is everything referred to as a miracle when it goes well?
If things go bad it's..."oh well..shit happens." or "I wasn't told information I needed to make that decision so its someone else's fault." or " I didn't do anything. I just told people what happened and they went and caused all the trouble." or "If we're blessed and get the nomination." as Barack Obama said yesterday...completely losing any chance I'd vote for him, ever, with that one reference to a divine hand being necessary for any human to accomplish anything.
No one is actually responsible for anything. Unless, of course, they get caught red-handed committing a crime and then it's "Fry the bastards."
Let's start calling people people, instead of individuals. Let's make a concerted effort to look at each person as though their feelings mattered and that we give a damn about them even if it's only for that instant we're dealing with them that day. Even if we have to pretend at first,and most of us will have to, let's do it anyway. Maybe we'll start seeing each other as human beings instead of obstacles to our personal needs and wishes.
People have accomplished plenty without divine intervention,(if there even is such a thing) and our custom of late is to give them no credit. To take that credit and just negate it with divinity. Give to a diety, to an idol, to someone or something that may or may not exist. But people do exist! And they do accomplish great things. And they do make a difference and they do deserve credit, and they do deserve our thanks.
For example, "No Problem." There's one that'll make my blood boil. The young man from the grocery store carries my things to the car, "Thanks," I say. "No Problem." is his response.
Apparently what he fails to understand is that I have absolutely no interest whether it was a problem for him to do his job or not. What I did was thank him for doing said job. The correct response is "You're welcome."
The other day on NPR they were interviewing some illiterate and at the end of the interview..."thanks for talking with us." " No Problem." Why the assumption that we're all so concerned about people's problems suddenly? We're not even concerned that they're people!
Seriously, no one gives a damn if I'm resentful today that I don't have a better job in education with my experience and credentials than I do. They just want me to do the job I have and shut the hell up. I should say "No problem" you'll pardon the expression.
Another is the word "individual." When exactly did we become so depersonalized that everyone is an individual instead of a person?
A quote from the editor of a local magazine which bills itself as the..."Voice for the LGBT and Allied Communities."
"Letters to the editor and most SpeakOut opinion pieces are written by individuals in the community."
I've never heard of them though they've apparently existed for five years now. See how I am involved in the community as an individual?
"'There were probably weeks of this student being subjected to harassment,' said Joe Gonzales, parent of a student at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, where King was killed Feb. 12." Where is Larry King's name in that parents statement?
Does anyone notice a pattern here?
I recall a flight from France to Toronto a couple of years ago in which the pilots screwed up and ran off the runway resulting in a crash and fire.However, the rest of the flight crew was on their game and got all of the passengers out of the aircraft in record time and the incident was immediately referred to as a "Miracle"
How about a little credit for the PEOPLE who did the job they were trained to do? How about a little credit for the PEOPLE who got all those PEOPLE off that plane without losing one?
Why in our society today is everything referred to as a miracle when it goes well?
If things go bad it's..."oh well..shit happens." or "I wasn't told information I needed to make that decision so its someone else's fault." or " I didn't do anything. I just told people what happened and they went and caused all the trouble." or "If we're blessed and get the nomination." as Barack Obama said yesterday...completely losing any chance I'd vote for him, ever, with that one reference to a divine hand being necessary for any human to accomplish anything.
No one is actually responsible for anything. Unless, of course, they get caught red-handed committing a crime and then it's "Fry the bastards."
Let's start calling people people, instead of individuals. Let's make a concerted effort to look at each person as though their feelings mattered and that we give a damn about them even if it's only for that instant we're dealing with them that day. Even if we have to pretend at first,and most of us will have to, let's do it anyway. Maybe we'll start seeing each other as human beings instead of obstacles to our personal needs and wishes.
People have accomplished plenty without divine intervention,(if there even is such a thing) and our custom of late is to give them no credit. To take that credit and just negate it with divinity. Give to a diety, to an idol, to someone or something that may or may not exist. But people do exist! And they do accomplish great things. And they do make a difference and they do deserve credit, and they do deserve our thanks.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
I do not like it, Sam I am!
"We are saying you don't need to accept people who are gay, but you should tolerate them." -a quote from the article in the Los Angeles Times covering the Lawrence King Memorial in Oxnard.
I loathe being tolerated.
DO NOT TOLERATE ME!!!
I am forced to tolerate heterosexual people and their bizarre ways every single day of my life. And I do not suffer fools. So you can imagine how my interaction with "them" frequently ends up.
Sunday, I worked at the grocery. I was waiting on someone and while she was writing her check I put the few things she had in a sack. When I turned around I found that some guy had come up, placed his basket on the counter, and his three children had proceeded to commandeer my cash register and were scanning things onto the lady's order that wasn't finished.
I am truly surprised I still have that job.
After removing the items from the children's hands and shooing them back around to the end of the counter I looked at Daddy and said, "It's called social skills. Let's pretend we know that."
I then had to void all the things that the kids had put on current customer's bill.
Daddy took the urchins to another register.
In retrospect I didn't react strongly enough. Just putting it down here made me mad all over again.
Heterosexuals, (I refuse to use the word straight, it gives them such a sense of superiority to think that I am somehow twisted and they're not. fuck them.) just run amuck all over the place and no one does anything to stop them! It's like they have special rights or something.
Fuck them. Did I say that already?
I shall never tolerate heteros very well. So they shouldn’t condescend to do me the favor in return.
Dickheads.
Think how crabby I'd be today if I hadn't gotten a good night's sleep last night!
If you can, go visit Proceed At Your Own Risk(NSFW) today (User Name: PAYOR Password:PASSWORD, all caps) Richard is talking today about Brandon McInerney, the poor kid who will likely now spend the rest of his life in prison for killing Lawrence King. The person who taught him to hate like that should do a few centuries too, and I said as much on Friday.
But as usual Richard is far more eloquent than I.
I loathe being tolerated.
DO NOT TOLERATE ME!!!
I am forced to tolerate heterosexual people and their bizarre ways every single day of my life. And I do not suffer fools. So you can imagine how my interaction with "them" frequently ends up.
Sunday, I worked at the grocery. I was waiting on someone and while she was writing her check I put the few things she had in a sack. When I turned around I found that some guy had come up, placed his basket on the counter, and his three children had proceeded to commandeer my cash register and were scanning things onto the lady's order that wasn't finished.
I am truly surprised I still have that job.
After removing the items from the children's hands and shooing them back around to the end of the counter I looked at Daddy and said, "It's called social skills. Let's pretend we know that."
I then had to void all the things that the kids had put on current customer's bill.
Daddy took the urchins to another register.
In retrospect I didn't react strongly enough. Just putting it down here made me mad all over again.
Heterosexuals, (I refuse to use the word straight, it gives them such a sense of superiority to think that I am somehow twisted and they're not. fuck them.) just run amuck all over the place and no one does anything to stop them! It's like they have special rights or something.
Fuck them. Did I say that already?
I shall never tolerate heteros very well. So they shouldn’t condescend to do me the favor in return.
Dickheads.
Think how crabby I'd be today if I hadn't gotten a good night's sleep last night!
If you can, go visit Proceed At Your Own Risk(NSFW) today (User Name: PAYOR Password:PASSWORD, all caps) Richard is talking today about Brandon McInerney, the poor kid who will likely now spend the rest of his life in prison for killing Lawrence King. The person who taught him to hate like that should do a few centuries too, and I said as much on Friday.
But as usual Richard is far more eloquent than I.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Friday Good Friday Bad
I have always thought Don Cheadle is handsome. He's a noteworthy contribution to our celebration of Black history month. The second guy is no slouch either, if you like that outrageously hot, outdoorsy, wildly cut, surly kinda thing...ooh I gotta stop!
But enough of the frivolity. I'm sadly not stunned or even surprised that a 15 year old kid was shot in the head because he's gay the other day.
What I want to know is when are we going to wake up and understand that kids are kids, they simply do not yet have the capacity to understand and rationalize that they will as adults. The shooter, at his age, is only imitating what he's seen, and reacting to what someone has taught him. When are we going to stop teaching our children to hate?
I've been "the family friend who we love because he's always been around and we love him even though he's gay." But I've seen those same people exhibit hate for gay people and I was through with them. They never seemed to understand their hypocrisy.
And where are all these guns that kids can get ahold of? I'm 50 and I don't own a gun! I wouldn't even know where to get one? I assume there are stores where one can buy a gun, but the process,as I understand it takes days for background checks, and you have to be a certain age. This kid is 14 or 15 and he has a gun? What kind of idiot gives a kid that age a gun?
I now understand why we need to defend marriage and safeguard the family in America by preventing gays from marrying and adopting. They might fuck up the stellar umblemished record of all these straight people who reproduce because it's a biological function, not because they have anything to contribute.
China may have been onto something when they started controlling the ability of their citizenry to reproduce.
Lawrence King, no matter what he wore to school, no matter how gay he acted, no matter what the other kids thought about him, did not deserve to die. And Brandon McInerney deserved to be taught better than to solve a dispute with a gun, but he wasn't.
Stop right now and think about these kids for a minute...think about your own kid if you have one, and how you'd feel if someone just blew their head off because they didn't like something about them.
Now what are you going to do about it?
And don't just act locally either.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Bouy-ed
It seems everyone has the mid-winter doldrums. Most people aren't even posting to their blogs, at least the ones I read.
The very few who are read like they're so lethargic they can hardly get one foot in front of the other.
It's truly the age of S.A.D.
I need to go outside and stand in the sun, the possibility of Melanoma notwithstanding, and just bask for a few minutes. I need to breathe fresh air, such as it is. I need to see that nature is still working it's magic out there, instead of watching through a piece of glass like it was tv. I've got Cabin Fever worse than when it's late August and I'm confined by the tropical heat.
I think lots of you do. Of course those of you in CA and HI are living it up this time of year. It's when you really get to gloat.
What I really need is some sleep. A whole day when I wasn't interrupted or called or heard banging and clanking or got retaliation thumping from the moron upstairs so I could just sleep.
That would be heavenly.
I know there are those of you with kids who haven't slept in years, but that falls squarely under the category of NOT MY PROBLEM!!!
You chose to have kids, I did not. I have an 18 y/o neighbor who refuses to acknowledge that other people live in this world and as long as he can party all night and sleep all day what's the fucking problem.
I did ask for a different apt this morning. We'll see how much that's going to cost. Then I'm going to go after Mr-stay-up-all-night and see if I can make him pay for it.
There's no reason I should incur the expense if I have to make a move just to sleep when I could do that where I am if he'd just let me.
Today I'm going on just under 4 hours. And I have to teach tonight. You can bet they're gettin' out early.
I guess I'll just sleep in the garage.
And before I get away Happy Valentine's Day to you all. Whatever it is, whoever it is, hold them/it close to your heart today and whisper "Thank You" because you'll never get a better gift.
The very few who are read like they're so lethargic they can hardly get one foot in front of the other.
It's truly the age of S.A.D.
I need to go outside and stand in the sun, the possibility of Melanoma notwithstanding, and just bask for a few minutes. I need to breathe fresh air, such as it is. I need to see that nature is still working it's magic out there, instead of watching through a piece of glass like it was tv. I've got Cabin Fever worse than when it's late August and I'm confined by the tropical heat.
I think lots of you do. Of course those of you in CA and HI are living it up this time of year. It's when you really get to gloat.
What I really need is some sleep. A whole day when I wasn't interrupted or called or heard banging and clanking or got retaliation thumping from the moron upstairs so I could just sleep.
That would be heavenly.
I know there are those of you with kids who haven't slept in years, but that falls squarely under the category of NOT MY PROBLEM!!!
You chose to have kids, I did not. I have an 18 y/o neighbor who refuses to acknowledge that other people live in this world and as long as he can party all night and sleep all day what's the fucking problem.
I did ask for a different apt this morning. We'll see how much that's going to cost. Then I'm going to go after Mr-stay-up-all-night and see if I can make him pay for it.
There's no reason I should incur the expense if I have to make a move just to sleep when I could do that where I am if he'd just let me.
Today I'm going on just under 4 hours. And I have to teach tonight. You can bet they're gettin' out early.
I guess I'll just sleep in the garage.
And before I get away Happy Valentine's Day to you all. Whatever it is, whoever it is, hold them/it close to your heart today and whisper "Thank You" because you'll never get a better gift.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
puzzles
sometimes these little quizzy things are annoying in their prescience:
You're The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe!
by C.S. Lewis
You were just looking for some
decent clothes when everything changed
quite dramatically. For the better or for the worse,
it is still hard to tell. Now it
seems like winter will never end and you feel cursed.
Soon there will be an epic
struggle between two forces in your life and you are
very concerned about a betrayal
that could turn the balance. If this makes it sound
like you're re-enacting Christian
theological events, that may or may not be
coincidence. When in doubt, put your trust
in zoo animals.
I've trusted Zoo Animals all my life...look where it's got me.
On the other hand sometimes they're sooo wrong it's amusing.
Imagine me High School Teacher, or an Accountant? And doesn't managing involve people?
Stifling the urge to pack and run while it's above freezing. Well, they promised it will be sometime later today, at least for a few hours.
It seems I should plan on not sleeping the first two days of each week. That's when My 18 y/o neighbor has his days off and needs to Party. AT 3 AM!!!!
It's truly a shame that contract killing is illegal, otherwise I'd look into it.
I did sleep last night though, it seems he got the message when I got up yesterday and walked around my apt banging the ceiling with a broom handle for half an hour screaming at him to wake up all the while. If I hadn't been so damn tired I'd have had a lot of fun with that...well, ok, more fun than I did.
I'm trying to figure out why I have this issue almost everywhere I live. Why is it so difficult for me to live where it's quiet? No one else seems to have this problem. And NO ONE seems to understand that I do.
I know I get wild-eyed after no sleep, but who doesn't? Oh well, enough of that for this week. He's back to work and I'm back to sleeping. Next week we'll have another episode. Maybe those are the days I should sleep in the garage. I could throw pots late into the night and then crash out there. hmmm.
We changed the play we're doing this semester, due to low audition turnout. So Street Scene, which I thought was not a very good choice to begin with, has been replaced with Talking With, dated, but useful in academia.
Barack Obama looks poised to win the nomination. Further proof that my contention that people are mostly sheep is accurate. What is it that qualifies this guy to be President? The democrats, always on self-destruct, and going to screw around yet again and John McCain is going to be the President. Stop voting for the trendy guy you idiots!
Hilary, though not my first choice, is far more experienced, far more capable, far more connected, and far more interested in working on fixing the things that are wrong in this country than anyone else in the field right now. John McCain, the republican heir apparent, is universally hated, and his Vice President Mike Huckabee, will take up the Dick Cheney mantle and run amuck with the evangelical wingnuts attempting to re-write the constitution to reflect their "Christian" values. And Gods save us then.
People seem to think we can go on like we are indefinitely and it'll be ok. Well, it won't, we're truly on the road to hell and though I want to live a long time, I really don't want to see this country fall. It will eventually but I'd rather not see it.
I love the idea of Europe. They just hang in there and superpowers rise and fall and there they are, chugging along haphazardly, yet true. Talk about a true North, Europe must surely have one.
The practical aspects would probably make me nuts, but the idea is romantic isn't it?
Are there garrets in the south of France? Maybe I'll go live in one and be a potter.
I am weary of suffering fools and being looked on as a Neanderthal because of the company I keep in regard to citizenry.
I guess I was a day ahead of schedule. Wishful thinking I'm sure. There's a new countdown widget in the sidebar so I don't have to do it manually. They say the best way to keep your brain active as you age is to learn a new language. Well, I think I can effectively learn HTML all over again, it only took me two days to make a counter work. Pathetic.
You're The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe!
by C.S. Lewis
You were just looking for some
decent clothes when everything changed
quite dramatically. For the better or for the worse,
it is still hard to tell. Now it
seems like winter will never end and you feel cursed.
Soon there will be an epic
struggle between two forces in your life and you are
very concerned about a betrayal
that could turn the balance. If this makes it sound
like you're re-enacting Christian
theological events, that may or may not be
coincidence. When in doubt, put your trust
in zoo animals.
I've trusted Zoo Animals all my life...look where it's got me.
On the other hand sometimes they're sooo wrong it's amusing.
You Are Upper Middle Class |
 You're stuck in an interesting middle area between upper and middle class. You're wealthy enough for most people to call you rich (or at least comfortable), but you don't feel rich! Climbing your way to the top is hard work. And you've often feel stretched for time and resources. If only you had a little more money! You can't help but wish you had the lifestyle of the upper class. You may end up: A manager, high school teacher, or accountant. Other people who share your class: "White collar" professionals and business people |
Imagine me High School Teacher, or an Accountant? And doesn't managing involve people?
Stifling the urge to pack and run while it's above freezing. Well, they promised it will be sometime later today, at least for a few hours.
It seems I should plan on not sleeping the first two days of each week. That's when My 18 y/o neighbor has his days off and needs to Party. AT 3 AM!!!!
It's truly a shame that contract killing is illegal, otherwise I'd look into it.
I did sleep last night though, it seems he got the message when I got up yesterday and walked around my apt banging the ceiling with a broom handle for half an hour screaming at him to wake up all the while. If I hadn't been so damn tired I'd have had a lot of fun with that...well, ok, more fun than I did.
I'm trying to figure out why I have this issue almost everywhere I live. Why is it so difficult for me to live where it's quiet? No one else seems to have this problem. And NO ONE seems to understand that I do.
I know I get wild-eyed after no sleep, but who doesn't? Oh well, enough of that for this week. He's back to work and I'm back to sleeping. Next week we'll have another episode. Maybe those are the days I should sleep in the garage. I could throw pots late into the night and then crash out there. hmmm.
We changed the play we're doing this semester, due to low audition turnout. So Street Scene, which I thought was not a very good choice to begin with, has been replaced with Talking With, dated, but useful in academia.
Barack Obama looks poised to win the nomination. Further proof that my contention that people are mostly sheep is accurate. What is it that qualifies this guy to be President? The democrats, always on self-destruct, and going to screw around yet again and John McCain is going to be the President. Stop voting for the trendy guy you idiots!
Hilary, though not my first choice, is far more experienced, far more capable, far more connected, and far more interested in working on fixing the things that are wrong in this country than anyone else in the field right now. John McCain, the republican heir apparent, is universally hated, and his Vice President Mike Huckabee, will take up the Dick Cheney mantle and run amuck with the evangelical wingnuts attempting to re-write the constitution to reflect their "Christian" values. And Gods save us then.
People seem to think we can go on like we are indefinitely and it'll be ok. Well, it won't, we're truly on the road to hell and though I want to live a long time, I really don't want to see this country fall. It will eventually but I'd rather not see it.
I love the idea of Europe. They just hang in there and superpowers rise and fall and there they are, chugging along haphazardly, yet true. Talk about a true North, Europe must surely have one.
The practical aspects would probably make me nuts, but the idea is romantic isn't it?
Are there garrets in the south of France? Maybe I'll go live in one and be a potter.
I am weary of suffering fools and being looked on as a Neanderthal because of the company I keep in regard to citizenry.
I guess I was a day ahead of schedule. Wishful thinking I'm sure. There's a new countdown widget in the sidebar so I don't have to do it manually. They say the best way to keep your brain active as you age is to learn a new language. Well, I think I can effectively learn HTML all over again, it only took me two days to make a counter work. Pathetic.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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